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I will die on the hill that the unknown isn’t that scary. (Presumably, the unknown will kill me on it.) Everything that actually scares me involves knowing what’s coming and being unable to do anything about it. All these vague and indescribable horrors are just boring.

Arknights needs subtitles for the subtext-impaired

In Kjera’s operator record, she argues with herself about why Pramanix is the first human in eons who she’s loved on an individual level. When Pramanix eventually dies, is she really fine with going back to not loving anyone? What is it she’s actually looking for, and what makes Pramanix different from everyone else?

I think she figures out an answer, but she never actually says

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Hey, you. Tumblr user who’s arguing that the Trolley Problem is meant to brainwash people into normalizing the government’s control over people’s lives and deaths. The argument you’re thinking of is called the Ticking Time Bomb Problem, and it’s fucking intolerable.

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Villains have to break out of prison, but henchmen tend to walk out after surprisingly short sentences. This is because henchmen do the hard work of building the failure-prone deathtraps heroes inevitably escape from, and henchmen always miss when shooting at heroes who aren't bulletproof. Most villains still haven't caught on to this.